Show SKUNKS DESTROY BEES stinker has been known to F eat at at one meal honey makers the he skunks or polecats pole cats lian have e be beuic pil th their e r destruction of bees and before the season Is over thousands I 1 lot of those thos industrious little insects ill be devoured devoured by the nial mal t t th til slain 1 Is very ery cunning in in his search for most pleasing food and sometimes he actually show shuman intelligence 9 in his bis efforts j at night time or early in the morning ewhen when he knows the bees aie resting and mill ft ill not fayhe fly he sneaks to the beehive he scratches at the entrance of the chiv hiv hive e w with ith his paw pam to attract the attention of the bees chih A hi h arc working on oil the inside of tho the I 1 lve ive then he calmly callily waits for he knows that the NI victims ims will short ly come out to sell see I 1 at the trouble I 1 is in J a little while his is belly Is full and hel he sneaks bacat mackto his homo home I 1 in the bushes A skunk has bee been known to eat at least a quart of b bees es at one meal A quart measure tall ill 1 hold something like bees is a meal not only N cry satisfying to the skunk 1 but quite cost ly to the o owner oane ane A colony of bees humberd numbers from to and the destruct destruction io V of of that num ber greatly cripples ples the force especially P as chose those destroyed are among the workers corkers of the family there are about 1500 colonies of bees in tho the A alley balley figuring that each colony contains only bees the number of those workers would mould be the bees of the valley alley are of a high grade and so far have been free from disease william powell of aulon enjoys the distinction of being the first man to import bees into the uintah basin which lie did sometime during the caily eighties |